Environment

Improving energy efficiency is undoubtedly a good thing. But efficiency should not be confused – as it sometimes is – with sufficiency, which calls for limiting energy consumption and is thus closely connected …

URB, the creator of the Dubai Reefs Project and The Loop in Dubai, announced plans for the Dubai Mangroves project this week. If it goes ahead, the initiative will see the emirate’s coastline planted with 100 …

The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) and the Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council (QCC) are partnering to address the growing global challenge of microplastic pollution in the Abu Dhabi …

A new report issued by the International Labor Organisation has found that more than 70 per cent of the world’s workforce is likely to be exposed to health risks linked …

Zain KSA, a telecommunications and digital services provider in Saudi Arabia, has announced that it has signed the Sustainability Champions Charter.  The initiative, spearheaded by the Ministry of Economy and Planning in …

For millennia, we have lived in harmony with our natural environment. Nature has given us all we need, be it food, shelter, and a sense of well-being. Over the past …

The UN has launched a new initiative aimed at embedding fairness, sustainability, and respect for human rights throughout the entire critical minerals value chain as the clean energy transition ramps up.  The Panel on …

At the ‘First Meeting of the Board of the Fund for responding to loss and damage,’ COP28 President and UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology HE Dr. Sultan Al Jaber urged Parties to “build on …

ROSHN Group, the PIF-owned giga-project and Saudi Arabian real estate developer, has announced that it has become one of the first ‘Saudi Sustainability Champions’ after signing a high-level pledge at the World Economic Forum …